Clothesline support and protector



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GLOTHESLINE SUPPORT AND PROTECTOR c. TELLY E? INVENTORS man aimmma "5.

ATTORNEY Filed Feb. 24

' Q 1% BY CHARLES A. TILLY AND PHILIE If. IECGUIRE, OF BROOKLYN, YORK.

GLOTHESLINE SUPPORT AND PROTECTOR.

Application filed February 24, 1922. 'aierial No. 53%,369.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, CHARLES A. TILLY and PHILIP J. MCGUIRE, both citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Clothesline Support and Protector, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used in the work of drying clothes, 7

Our invention has for its object primarily to provide a device designed to be employed for supporting especially at the window of a building a line so that clothes and similar articles may be attached thereto for suspension in the air and removed from the line without the person accomplishing the work risking the danger of falling through the window. This is accomplished mainly by providing a frame adapted to be fixed across the window of a building so that a person may lean thereagainst for serving to prevent the person from accidentally falling through the window. On the frame is apulley for movably carrying a line leading from the window, and this pulley is adjustably movable on the frame backwardly and forwardly crosswise of the window so that the person may operate the line from either side of the window, in order to facilitate the application of and removal of the articles from the line.

A further object of the invention is to provide a clothes line support and protector of a simple and eiiicient construction which may be made of suitable material in any appropriate shape and size.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a view showing an elevation of one form of clothes line support and protector embodying our invention applied to a window.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view, partly in detail, taken through the window and which shows an elevation of the device in use for supporting a line, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view, partly fragmentary, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

The device hasa frame 10 which preferably includes two supporting bars 11, 12, and the ends of these bars are movably inserted through openings provided in pairs of brackets, as 13, 13 and 14, 14 respectively. Each of these brackets may be in the form of a curved or substantially U-shaped strap havingon the free ends of its arms oppositely disposed lugs, as 15, 15, with holes therethrough. When the device is applied to the window, as 16, of a building or elsewhere, the bars are arranged in spaced superposed relation crosswise of the lower portion of the window, and the brackets on the ends of each bar are secured to the stiles, as 1 7 and 18, of the frame of the window by screws or bolts being passed through the lugs 15, 15 The bars 11 and 12 are of lengths to permit of being applied. in this manner to the frame, and these bars are also positioned so that the person operating the device may lean thereagainst for being prevented from likelihood of accidentally falling from the window.

Slidably movable on the sup aorting bars 11 and 12 is a bracket, as 19, which may be of any suitable type, though the form of the bracket illustrated has two bars or strips 20 and 21 disposed'in lapping lengthwise arrangement. The central parts of these strips are bent in opposite directions to pro-' vide an opening or a loop, as 22, and the strips may be riveted together, as at 23, above and below the opening. In the lower ends of the strips are registered holes, as 25, and registered holes, as 26, are also provided in the upper ends of the strips. The supporting bars 11 and 12 extend through the pairs of registered holes 25, 26. and the holes are of sizes so that the brackets or strips may be adjusted crosswise of the window to desired positions with respect to the stiles of the window frame. On a shaft or stud 27 held to the strips 20 and 21. crosswise of the opening 22 is a rotary pulley or peripherally grooved wheel 28 on which is arranged a movable line 29 extending to a post 30 or other support provided at a. distance from the window, and this line may also be movably passed. over a pulley 81 or the like mounted on a suitable part of the post.

In order to further protect the person using the device from accidentally falling through the Windows, between the supporting bars 11 and 12 are two guard bars 82, 38, one at each side of the bracket 19 and pulley 28. Each of these guard bars are provided with sleeves 3 1, 35 on its ends, and these sleeves are niovably disposed on the bars 11 and 12 to allow the guard bars to be slidably adjusted toward and from the bracket and pulley 28 lVhen it is desired to suspend clothes or other articles on the line or lGHlOVG the articles therefrom the guard bars and 3 may be moved on the 811917011111 bars and 12 to suitable posi tions, and the bracket 19 and pulley 28 may likewise be ndjustably moved on the sup porting bars so that the person hanging the articles on the line or removing the articles theref om may lean against one of the guard bars as Well as lean against one orboth of the supporting bars.

In the foregoing description, We have e1nbodied the preferred form oi? our invention, but We do not Wish to be understood as limitin ourselves thereto, as We are aware that modifications may be made therein Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore, We reserve to ourselves the right to make such changes as fairly fall Within the scope thereof. 1

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A clothes line support and protector, comprising two supporting bars adapted to be held in spaced superposed relation across a Window, a rotatable pulley adjnstably movable on the bars, and two guard bars each adjustably movable on the supporting bars toward and from the pulley 2. A clothes line support and protector, comprising two supporting bars adapted to be held in spaced superposed relation across a Window, a bracket slidably movable upon CHARLES A. TILLY. PHILIP J. MQGUIRE. Witnesses A. Lnrorrrnn, FREDERICK CBYER. 

